A few times during the 2.5 years spent in a fundamentalist cult from 19-21.

Back when I was 24 I did a read the bible in a year. Stopped half way through when I found that certain parts were left out. Read the deleted parts and called myself an atheist.

Tried a couple of times and failed.

I have read the NIV bible, the Quran and the Satanic Bible. The Satanic Bible is by far the most moral of the three.

I have..many times. When I finally began reading the Bible in the original Greek and Hebrew, I realized that most of what I'd been taught in church wasn't even in the original version.

Now why would I do a damn-fool thing like that? Seriously - I have read a lot of it, back when I was doing the church thing 30 years ago, and also in college next to other texts, comparing stories. I never wanted to read the whole thing! I got enough to know not to!

Great question. I have not. My father was an Atheist, raised in Greek Orthodoxy. He told his kids 'why would you waste your time reading that shit? there's so many other books out there and they're better written'.